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American Idol judges have no sense of good vocal quality
Early in tonight's program, in about the third or so batch, there were three guys highlighted. The first two sang like they were constipated. The third sang much more comfortably, and had a good sense of pitch steadiness.
The first two were retained, while the third was thrown out.
related IJBMs:
IJBM: the popularity of constipated singing in U.S. pop music
IJBM: the popularity of the AAVE/Ebonics accent in U.S. pop music
IJBM: the popularity of sliding one's voice all over the place while singing each syllable in U.S. pop music
IJBM: american idol and other shows like it never feature awesome shit like this: 
Comments
>2012
>Watching American Idol.
Seriously though all I remember the one time I watched was Steven Tyler talking about how the other judges didn't know what they were talking about.
My mom watches it because her friend is a big fan of it.
Seriously, I bet you they'd throw out Chihaya Kisaragi if she entered.
I haven't watch American Idol in years. Not even Steven Tyler on the show made me want to watch it again.
also, dammit Glenn, now I want to go all iM@S-music-spammy on this thread
Who's that?
To be fair, they apparently don't.
^ Chihaya Kisaragi is a character from THE iDOLM@STER. She is known for being extremely talented, vocally.
^^Yeah, that indeed was what made it amusing. Steve Tyler is the only one of the people on the show that doesn't look like he's trying to hide the reek of has-been. The look on Tyler's face when one of the judges called Journey the greatest rock band of all time was actually pretty priceless.
Well, can you blame him? That title clearly belongs to Protest the Hero.
>Well, can you blame him?
Of course not. After all-
>That title clearly belongs to Protest the Hero.
To be fair, Journey's awesome in a cheesy way.
@CompassionateSadist: I see you are also lady.
Journey's not bad at all, but calling them the greatest rock band of all time is like calling Star Trek IV the greatest sci-fi movie of all time.
Journey's ok--
>Doooon't stop! Belieeeeeevin'!
NOOOOOOO
@CompassionateSadist: But are you ready? :P
The judges do suck.
American Idol could do with a nice big dose of awesome.
Judas Priest was evidently on the show awhile back.
quite so. Then again, ranking bands is pretty fucking dumb and you shouldn't do it.
Just sayin'
Even Judas Priest isn't enough awesome so fix the base issues, though.
Like only advertising towards and entering people who sing in a narrow handful of acceptable ways.
Oh certainly. But you know that would take dismantling the show's basic premise of control by popular vote. =|
I'm not particularly interested in AI but I don't think it's the evil the hipster community likes to make it out to be.
I think the problem with AI is simply the fact that it has an approach to music that doesn't even further the knowlege of both the watcher and the contestant. I think I'd actually watch it if musical theory was taught to the contestant and explained to the viewer.
While that would make it a better show, it would make it less popular. =|
Oh, definetly. Although I think a good deal of it depends on the presentation as well. I think you can present musical theory without entirely focusing on it while maintaining a degree of spectacle and...stuff.
What would they say about Luciano Pavarotti?
These shows definitely emphasize style over substance, so it's no wonder it produced how many successful winners? 2?
Is American Idol better or worse than the X Factor (UK)?
I've seen some of The X Factor (US) and I don't think there's much difference. My mom says that there's some difference, with American Idol (US) being somewhat better quality-wise than The X Factor (US).
Well, there's one thing that Pop Idol (UK) had over American Idol - it enabled my brother to say "I want to be a Pop Idol, so I can be popular and idle."
Best. Pun. Ever. Well, his best pun, anyway.
Idol idle = Miki Hoshii when napping